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From the blog of David Walk at The Times of Israel

“Rare food for a lunatic” ... “a thing that happens once in a million years” ... “Shakespeare, could he read it, would be glad that he was dead.”

The book, which features cats dressed up and placed in funny settings, was intended to educate children with vocabulary and entertaining rhymes.

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney was America’s first best-selling poet and the first woman in American history to make a living by her pen. Born in Norwich in 1791, she lived here until leaving for Hartford in 1814, where she published her poems, thus earning the title “The Sweet Singer of Hartford.” Until her death in 1865, she held great affection for her birthplace, contributing a poem to be read at Norwich’s 200th anniversary celebration in 1859. Lydia Huntley was the daughter of the gardener for the Lathrop estate; Madame Lathrop, the widow of Dr. Daniel Lathrop, took great interest in th...